boat that ran on the Sangamon. This boat had so big LITTLE 

 a whistle that when she blew it, there was n't steam JOURNEYS 

 enough to make her run, and when she ran she could n't 

 whistle." 



Huxley, Spencer and Ingersoll all made Gladstone cut 

 for the woods and cover his retreat in a cloud of words. 

 Ingersoll once said that in replying to Gladstone, he 

 felt like a man who had been guilty of cruelty to chil- 

 dren Jt> & 



If one wants to see how pitifully weak Gladstone could 

 be in argument let him refer to the files of the " North 

 American Review" for 1882-3. 



Yet Ingersoll was surely lacking in the passion for 

 truth that characterized Huxley. Ingersoll was always 

 a prosecutor or a defender the lawyer habit was 

 strong upon him. Just a little more bias in his clay and 

 he would have made a model bishop. His stock of sci- 

 ence was almost as meagre as was that of Samuel 

 Wilberforce, and he seldom hesitated to turn the laugh 

 on an adversary even at the expense of truth. 

 When brought to book for his indictment of Moses 

 without giving that great man any credit for the sublime 

 things he did do, or making allowances for the barbaric 

 horde with which he had to deal, Bob evaded the 

 proposition by saying, "I am not the attorney of Moses 

 he has more than three million men looking after his 



case.' 



Again in that most charming lecture on Shakespeare, 

 Ingersoll proves that Bacon did not write the plays by 

 picking out various detached passages of Bacon, which 



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